Thanks Phil, Arh yes 👍 😊 well that’s something I’m going to talk about in another chapter. It’s something I went back to doing but don’t tell anyone 🤫

Hi Phil welcome back to fishing, think we all have time away at some point. Then thankfully we find time again often once families have flown the nest. Fishing is only as complicated as you want to make it. Liquidised bread is still possibly one of the best ground baits and hook baits for sure. Prep is definitely a big part especially for competition fishing, but aside from that with people living very busy lives these days. I’m a big advocate of preparing my kit ready for the next trip even for just a pleasure fishing trip. Time spent at home tying hooks or preparing bait etc is more time on the bank fishing. 👍😊

Hi mate not sure on those as a pattern of hook. If your fancying have a go with the Hayabusa hooks. The 194 pattern I find prefect for punch and pinkie fishing. Also find for squat but they’re a wide ish gape hook. 128’s are a good rounder though know a good few canal anglers that use 128’s. Perch on the canal can’t go far wrong with 157’s 👍 Hope that’s of help Scott

Thanks for that Scott I'd be amazed if you didn't know Gamakatsu G-BL Gama Black and greens ...but I guess it's possible .

No it’s not a pattern that I’m familiar with. Was Tubertini and Kamsan that I used to use, odd few Drennan patterns as well.

Hi Alan DM is described by Van Den Eynde as scrappings from the bottom of Pigeon lofts. Whether that is 100% true or not i'm not sure. But it does have a lot od grit and tiny bits of of hemp etc in it. Almosts like a porridge if mixed on it's own, I like it a lot for my canal mixes. Cheers Scott

@@SoartackleCoUk Thank you, now I know, its not used that much here in Kent even Special is difficult to find, like the video, very informative

Very welcome Alan, yeah think good old Van Den Eynde is a little old school in this modern fishing world. But it’s surprising how many people still use it. Old faithful I suppose :-)

Cheers Alan, about time someone talked about canal fishing, carry on 😊😊

Wow yes, touch of grey leam. God not used it in a long time, since Coventry winter canal league with blood worm and joker

Yep been around for ever, can’t beat the old stuff 👍

Hi Gary, Thank you :-). Just sat down with a brew. For me I don't like to use liquidised bread on a canal, I don't think it's fine enough. Yes I know you can bulk it out with crumb but no it's not for me. On a river carry extra water if I'm pleasure fishing for chub and the like absolutey liquidised bread. I suppose the question is why. Bread crumb is so fine that you can get it to do all maner of things in the water, like a nice visual cloud with lots of little particles falling though the water, that then lay on the bottom. Fingers crossed there are fish about, with the particles being so small hopefully they'll sift through the crumb trying to find that bigger bit. That bit needs to be your hook bait not a bit of liquised bread. I also think theres a strong chance that liquidised will bloat fish as well bit like it does us. Half the time we're fishing for blades on a canal even more so in the cold conditions. Another thought is a fishes sence of smell is effectively taste so they suck in anything they think is food. Hopefully they suck in the fine particles of crumb and realise Oh this is food i need food to survive. I need more where is it. Big subject that really fastenates me, need to do a video on this don't I. Final note. Going back to visual / smell / taste The chip shop, we can smell a chippy from miles away that smell on the air makes you hungry. Same for fish :-) Water soluable scents / flavours. Oh one final thing Bread crumb in coloured waters yes 100%. Can't understand why some people say (ooh can't use bread today with the water like tea! what the ....) Have a good un at weekend :-) Scott

Yes perfect for big floats 👍 sent quite a few over to Ireland over the years

Hi and thank you for the feedback. Hook choice would be micro barbed, personally I don’t feel I get a proper hold with barbless hooks on rod and line. They’re great with a pole as the elastic in the pole keeps a near prefect tension all the time thus (fingers crossed) keeping the hook from falling out. Where rod and line it’s near impossible to keep that sort of tension as the rod tip just doesn’t act the same. So a micro barb on today’s modern hooks is just enough to hold it in place if the line should go slack. I remember the old days of likes of mustad hooks with them huge barbs on them 🥴. Obviously if a club stipulated barbless only then I’d follow those rules but in assuming your fishing running water. Hope that’s of help Again thanks for the question 😊 Scott

Hi Terry thank you. Does take a little bit of sorting out and you might find it easier with pattern of float. It’s something I do get asked in the shop and it’s something that will make a difference. So my plan is to do a video and all being well show how it works. But in the meantime If you can picture the float tip as it is an indicator. It will show bites not only as it goes under but as lift bites or as we call them hold ups. The only way you can do this is by using the full length of the float tip. Obviously weather conditions etc etc can and will change this but if we keep simple. Imagine the float tip has three colours yellow first above that red then black. I’d would shot the float with the bulk taking the float so nearly all the yellow has gone. Stage one float set I’d probably have a couple of dropper shot that would take the float to red. Stage two As that final and third dropper settles the float tip will be primed and ready as only the black will be showing. If a fish picked up the bait and effectively swam up thus taking say two drop shot out you’d see the yellow show Lift bite. As you can see there’s quite a bit on this subject. But it’s quite important to use all the float tip. You can only set your floats up to a point at home with fine tuning being done on the bank. Adding or removing trim shot so that all important float tip position works as an indicator. I hope that helps But I will endeavour to do a video on the very subject soon. By all means if you have any more questions please ask 👍

@ thank you for the reply..yes that was a help thanks,I look forward to the video

Hi, I can't speak of Korda as I do not use their hooks. However a note on Hayabusa. They have been manufacturing hooks in their factory in Japan for over 50 years, and some top competition lure companys will only use Hayabusa hooks on their lures. A big selling part with the lures is that they state the fact they are made using Hayabusa hooks. Hayabusa are a manufacturer making their products from start to finish from forming the steel to the finished product. Meaning there is no compremise on quaility. Where's many companies like Korda out source / buy in hooks from whoever is manufacturing them and branding them as their own, which is prefectly fine with some good quaility products. But I my opinion this can give quality problems at times. As for sharpness yes very sharp, I can never usderstand this sharping brand new hooks. Begs the quetsion if they were good enough in the first place they wouldn't need sharpening! Staying sharp is another reason for why people use them so much in lure fishing and thus switching to them now in the coarse fishing world. Hope thats a little bit of incite in to them, Put i mentioned above I cannot comment on them against Korda as I do not use their hooks. Tight lines

Hi not sure if I can help you with that one. Might be just a hunt around your local shops that sell floristry items as the cylinder is sold as a glass vase here.

I got mine from the Range sometime ago pretty should they still sell them. Should be in there home section with the candle etc

Pinkies can be a great bait all year round, like you say especially in the winter. Frothy maggots, it’s generally because they are sweating. Can happen even more when they are cold especially if in a bait tub with the lid on. As they’ll still be breathing and generating some heat they’ll create condensation inside the tub thus they’ll start the froth up. The tackle shop should be keeping them clean and putting fresh maize flour on they as they sell them to you, in doing so they should keep happily in a fridge with out you touching them for a couple 24hrs. Best way to keep maggots or pinkies in the fridge is in a tray the biggest that’ll fit in the fridge. No lid though that is important. Dust they with fresh maize flour. If they are frothy when you get them home your best off popping them in some fine sawdust to dry them off. To clean them off you’ll need a 2mm preferably riddle or 3mm shack the sawdust off then pop them in a tray with some maize flour. Hope that’s of help

Your welcome Mark, and thank you for your kind comment / feed back. I really do need to sit down and add some more. :-)

Thank you for your input and question 😊 Bit of a forgotten bait really, tend to get used more round here in Leicestershire Derbyshire on the autumn and winter canal leagues. We only tend to keep Squat through Autumn and Winter as there’s not the demand in the spring and summer. If we can see people want them and the bigger if is if the maggot farm is doing them then we’ll make sure they’re available for people.

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I think Dave Harrell is the only person doing lignum floats now. Sometimes worth having a look around carboots and traditional tackle shops for old stock, as don’t think you can beat the stick floats from 20 odd years ago. I’ve got a some Dick Clegg Britannia sticks that must be 30 years old but can’t find anything that betters them.

Glad you found it of help 👍😊

We do get them in red but not that often. The red dye they use seems to really really shorten their life span. As mentioned in the clip I’ve been playing about Fjuka red power to give them a tinge of red colour

@@SoartackleCoUk I could imagine normally the squat are fed on the pre-coloured meat , Pinkies also however when you see the fluro pinkies they seem to last forever if kept in correct storage - keep up the great work Scott

Yes have to agree with you on that one Matt.

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Hi mate I got mine from the Range, Id of thought they'd still sell them.

Not being funny but he said twice he got it from the Range for about £6. Why click on a video if you're not going to listen?🤷‍♂

What is your favorite pattern?

@@SoartackleCoUk H.KAJ157 & H.CHK128. Ireland and big naturals.

Aye yes something we’ll be putting together in not to distant future 👍 Hooks are loose, they do do a very limited range in pre tied but not sure if they’ll expand that or bring them over to the UK.

Hi, it’s the opposite bank to Loughborough Soar. Part of cranes pond, it’s nice as you can more or less part behind you peg.

A water butt is perfect for checking rigs 👍👍

Smaller shot are far from easy to use unfortunately. Have you tried slot shot or styles? They tend to be easier to use as they’re normally softer. Also being an oblong shape they’re easier to handle. 👍

Thank you 👍😊

Welcome Mark, and thank you for the comment :-)

Aye yes can't see why that wouldn't work. Should smell nice to LOL

Yep', don't be fooled by un necessary, Tackle Tart stuff (£6) when there's stuff, just as good already in the bathroom.

Nice video and that's very helpful .

Make small loops out of old elastic cut offs and put on top kits were you desire to save elastic being out of pole when hooking rig up 👍

Referring to making your own by Jamie Hughes is using the Simple hair conditioner has it as very little external fragrance. 7 parts water to 1 part of the said hair conditioner in an old washing up liquid bottle. Job done.

Hi mate. We have them in the shop or they're available through our shop website. www.soartackle.co.uk/dosapiombo-float-shotter-718-p.asp Cheers Scott

Hay up mate hopefully this will work for you. If you go to this link it will take you to my useful guides. You'll be able to down load print off from there. Cheers Scott stickfloat.wordpress.com/2020/11/23/useful-guides/

Cheers mate will help me a lot just getting back into coarse fishing after a very long time things have changed so much really need videos like yours to catch up with all the latest methods 👍😀

Your very welcome. Top tip in getting back is to keep things simple. Prep at home so your not wasting time on the bank. :-)

@@SoartackleCoUk I bought my pole of youse a middy muscle tech 6 mtr with a few extra extensions 4 and 4 top kits I bought 2 packs of 3 sensas 1.50 mtr hollow tips and cut them down to suit the bushes for the 3 sizes of middy solid elastics you recommended and use this set up for all my pole silver fishing great kit ,I actually bought another muscle tech 6 for spares , I actually regularly fish it with all the extensions and the butt from the other pole getting me about 11.5 mtrs and not a bother tempted to go longer but can't seem to source spares anymore because I think middy have stopped trading any idea what's happening with them ,anyway sorry for rattling on ,what you think of my setup ?be nice to get an experienced anglers opinion regards owen

Hi mate, Set up sounds good to me. So long as it works for you that is the main thing. Stick to your 11 mtr its more than enough id of thought for most places. You could always chuck a waggler or a small feeder/bomb for your longer line. Sounds like your doing bob on with elastic choice. :-) As for MIddy they are still around. The original owners retired and sold the company. The new owners have annouced they hoping to have everything back up and running in March. They have been posting about stuff on Facebook.

Very welcome

Welcome mate 😊

Like wise 👍

@@SoartackleCoUk Alan norrish is going to come as well mate. Help me with a few bits. Hope that’s ok 👍

Not a problem at all

Welcome Jim, find you get a really good fit doing it that way. One thing I forgot to mention was that if you slightly twist the soft part left and right during fitting. That really settles it home.

@Soar Tackle yeah that's how I got it to settle in the hole. Twist left and right as you gently ease it into the drilled hole. Once settled it sits perfectly and in my mind the small dab of epoxy just gave me ease of mind. Probably not needed but I thought belt and braces. I'll be back for some middy top kits soon from you. Great service 👏

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Going to be a touch warm over the coming day so they’ll be perfect. Especially if your able to go early in the morning or evening when fish will be rising for any fly hatch. Good luck let us know how you get on with them 👍

Have it made for us Andy, but they’re struggling to get hold of the carrier component so not had any for a while. Hopefully I’ll have some before long though.

@@SoartackleCoUk yes, everyone has the same problem, Can't get any from any brand.

Thank you Alan, Hopefully get some more done soon.

Your welcome Steve

Hi Steven, unfortunatly the rubber floats stop are a single use thing. Although bet someone has come up with away of rethreading them. You could use pellet waggler adaptors of which you can re use. www.soartackle.co.uk/middy-pellet-float-adaptor-2958-p.asp Hope thats of help

Thank you 👍